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October 2007
- GOP Lashes Out at Craig Over Decision to Stay
  
  CNN | Oct 5, 07 4:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The GOP is an uproar after Larry Craig announced yesterday that he will serve out his term, CNN reports. Some are criticizing the Idaho senator's decision because it will be a distraction from more pressing issues; others denounce Craig's behavior outright. "It's embarrassing for the Senate. It's embarrassing for our party," said John Ensign. More »
  
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  election 2008 • GOP • Larry Craig • senator • Senate Ethics Committee
- Christian Right Seeks Rudy Alternative
  
  Los Angeles Times | Oct 1, 07 5:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The religious right’s failure to coalesce around anyone in the GOP’s top presidential tier could throw the party’s nomination to socially liberal Rudy Giuliani, the Los Angeles Times reports. By favoring unrealistic candidates such as Brownback and Huckabee, and doubting the conservative zeal of Romney and Thompson, they leave the door open for the thrice-married former mayor. More »
  
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  Mitt Romney • Rudy Giuliani • Mike Huckabee • GOP • Fred Thompson • religious right • James Dobson • Sam Brownback
September 2007
- GOP Moderates in Agony Over Key Votes
  
  Washington Post | Sep 19, 07 2:30 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Moderates in the GOP are dreading upcoming votes that will force them to choose between loyalty to their president and their reelection prospects, the Washington Post reports. Upcoming congressional showdowns on the Iraq war, children’s health care, and spending will be particularly perilous to those facing voters next fall. “We are at a very significant juncture,” said one representative. “I’d use a metaphor… about something hitting the fan.” More »
  
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  Iraq war • Bush administration • Republicans • GOP • Iraq war spending • voters • Bush approval ratings
- Senate Derails DC's Bid for a House Seat
  
  Washington Post | Sep 19, 07 8:38 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Residents of the nation's capital will remain without a Congressional representative after a measure that would have given them a House seat stalled in the Senate. Supporters fell three votes short on the most promising effort in 30 years, the Washington Post reports, and the bill is unlikely to come up again this session. "We have not given up," said one backer. More »
  
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  Congress • Democrats • Senate • GOP • House of Representatives • Utah • Mitch McConnell • Washington, D.C. • voting rights
- Greenspan Attacks Bush, GOP
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 15, 07 7:44 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan lambastes President Bush and his own party for disastrous economic policies in a memoir published next week. He criticizes the GOP for abandoning fiscal restraint while it had control of both Congress and the White House, the Wall Street Journal reports. Republicans in Congress, he writes, "swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose." More »
  
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  Federal Reserve • inflation • GOP • Republican Party • Alan Greenspan
- Thompson Closing in on Giuliani
  
  CNN | Sep 12, 07 2:47 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Just five days into his official run for the presidency, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson has moved within a percentage point of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in a CNN popularity poll. Thompson won the support of 27% of registered Republicans, while Giuliani garnered 28%. With a 5-point margin of error factored in, neither candidate has a clear edge. More »
  
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  election 2008 • Republicans • Rudy Giuliani • GOP • Fred Thompson • poll • Republican presidential primaries • primary • CNN
- Hagel Bows Out of '08 Race
  
  New York Times | Sep 8, 07 4:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - GOP hopes to stop the Dems in next year's election took another hit today as aides announced Chuck Hagel's retirement from the Senate. They also dashed rumors that he will run for the White House on an Independent ticket alongside Michael Bloomberg. Hagel’s departure leaves the GOP with 22 contestable seats to defend in 2008, the New York Times reports. More »
  
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  election 2008 • Iraq war • Republicans • Senate • GOP • Chuck Hagel
- In Minn. Senate Race, Joke May Be on the GOP
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 7, 07 12:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Minnesota GOP, facing an unexpectedly strong challenge from would-be Democratic nominee Al Franken, is turning some of his humor around on him. Immediately after the actor-author announced his US Senate candidacy, the GOP released a list of what it called “mean-spirited and divisive partisan” wisecracks, the Journal reports, and a GOP tracker is filming his every campaign move. More »
  
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  election 2008 • Republicans • Democrats • GOP • Minnesota • Saturday Night Live • Al Franken • Norm Coleman
- Craig Will Leave Senate After All: Aide
  
  Associated Press | Sep 6, 07 5:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Larry Craig has reversed course and will resign his Senate seat, his spokesman told the AP today. “The most likely scenario, by far, is that by October there will be a new senator from Idaho,” the spokesman said, after reports surfaced that the conservative Republican was reconsidering plans to resign. Craig met yesterday with Idaho’s governor, who will appoint his successor. More »
  
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  Republicans • GOP • ethics • Larry Craig • Idaho • Senate Republicans • Mitch McConnell
- GOP Heads to Brand Rehab
  
  Politico | Sep 5, 07 12:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As the Republican Party continues to languish in the polls, leaders are hoping that the GOP can be reintroduced to Americans with a bit of corporate-style rebranding. House minority leader John Boehner has convened an ad hoc committee to develop a new pitch for the party as one of small government and tough diplomacy, rather than unsuccessful wars and sex scandals. More »
  
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  Republicans • GOP • Republican Party • John Boehner • branding
August 2007
- Warner Will Retire in 2009; Dems Eye Va. Senate Seat
  
  Washington Post | Aug 31, 07 5:20 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After 28 years, John Warner will call it quits in 2009, after his fifth Senate term. The GOP stalwart who recently parted ways with President Bush on Iraq strategy announced his retirement today, sending Virginia Democrats and Republicans alike into a tizzy, the Washington Post reports. "I'm going to quietly step aside," said the 80-year-old military-policy expert. More »
  
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  Senate • GOP • Virginia • Senate Republicans • John Warner
- Republican Scandal Level Approaches Self-Parody
  
  New York Times | Aug 29, 07 4:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sen. Larry Craig's bathroom toe tap is only the latest in a seemingly endless string of scandal that has Republicans at wit's end, the NY Times reports. Such episodes are fueling voter suspicion of a party already tied to an unpopular president and the Iraq war. "We are approaching a level of ridiculousness," fumes one GOP activist. More »
  
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  Iraq war • Republicans • scandals • GOP • sex scandal • ethics • Larry Craig • Ted Stevens • David Vitter
- The Karl Rove Question: Were Federal Assets Used to Further GOP?
  
  Washington Post | Aug 19, 07 12:54 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - In the wake of Karl Rove's resignation, the Washington Post does a detailed account of the political strategist's use of the White House to pursue his dream of insuring GOP dominance for the foreseeable future. While all administrations send senior officials out to help party members get elected, the Post finds that Rove micromanaged these efforts to an unprecedented degree. More »
  
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  Bush administration • White House • GOP • Karl Rove • Republican Party
- GOP Is Chasing Away Latino Voters
  
  American Prospect | Aug 16, 07 5:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With 69% of Latino voters going Democratic in 2006, anti-immigration sentiment among GOP presidential hopefuls may only serve to turn off the remaining 30. Meanwhile, the Latino population is growing, especially in swing states. "Even Texas could become a swing state a couple of elections from now," the American Prospect 's Paul Waldman writes. More »
  
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  election 2008 • Mitt Romney • Republicans • Rudy Giuliani • Mike Huckabee • immigration • GOP • Fred Thompson • presidential election • immigrant • Latino voters • Hispanic • voters
- Carville: Rove Cost GOP a Generation
  
  Financial Times (UK) | Aug 15, 07 3:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Impressive electoral record aside, Karl Rove's strategy of aggressively courting the GOP base has soured an entire generation on the Republican Party, James Carville argues in the Financial Times . Bill Clinton's storied strategist says "theocratic underpinnings" of Rovian strategy are behind polls showing a nameless Democratic presidential candidate favored by 32% among younger voters. More »
  
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  election 2008 • George W. Bush • Bush administration • Republicans • GOP • Karl Rove • campaign adviser • James Carville
- You Can't Blame the Man for Everything
  
  Weekly Standard | Aug 14, 07 7:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The media crowned him with a wizard's hat and now they’re knocking it off, saying they just don’t feel the magic anymore. But Rove was never a magician, always an adviser, and usually a brilliant one, argues the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes. After all, he steered Bush through four political victories and sprinkled just enough magic dust to help the GOP grow. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Bush administration • election • GOP • Karl Rove
- The Rise and Fall of Rove
  
  Washington Post | Aug 14, 07 10:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Karl Rove may have been the but-for cause of the Bush presidency, but his dreams of using it to build a generation-long Republican hegemony that would undo the New Deal have been unquestionably dashed. Bush's boy genius envisioned a "permanent majority," but the Washington Post considers the reasons it had already slipped his grasp by 2006. More »
  
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  Bush administration • Republicans • GOP • Karl Rove • New Deal
- Rove Exit Inspires Pundit Ire
  
  Nation | Aug 13, 07 4:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Not all Karl Rove haters celebrated his announced departure today. The Nation ’s David Corn, while pleased that taxpayers will no longer be paying the Bush political strategist's salary after August, feels that Rove deserves the punishment of being forced to stay “to the bitter end” of the unpopular presidency he masterminded. He accuses Rove of “cutting and running” from a losing battles. More »
  
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  Bush administration • White House • GOP • Karl Rove • Wall Street Journal • Michelle Malkin
- From Whispers, GOP Hopefuls Aim for a Roar
  
  Slate | Aug 9, 07 3:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With second-tier candidates sensing that Saturday's straw poll may be their last, best chance to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Iowa is abuzz with whispering campaigns, Slate 's John Dickerson says. The homegrown negative ads are a major tool for cash-poor politicians with names like Tancredo, Brownback and Huckabee. More »
  
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  John McCain • election 2008 • Republicans • Rudy Giuliani • Mike Huckabee • presidential campaign • Iowa • GOP • Fred Thompson • presidential election • poll • straw poll • Sam Brownback • Tom Tancredo
- South Carolina Prompts Primary Chaos
  
  Washington Post | Aug 9, 07 5:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - South Carolina's Republican Party is about to shift its primary to January 19, triggering a chain reaction of primary rescheduling that is infuriating candidates and campaign managers, the Washington Post reports. The New Hampshire primary will likely be rescheduled for early January and the Iowa caucuses as early as December. Other states, seeking to make their primaries more important, are also still angling for early dates. More »
  
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  election 2008 • Republicans • Florida • GOP • presidential election • New Hampshire • South Carolina • primary

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